Effects of environmental sound quality on soundscape preference in a public urban space

KW Ma, CM Mak, HM Wong - Applied Acoustics, 2021 - Elsevier
A public urban space is undoubtedly one of the key elements in urban planning. It allows
citizens with different backgrounds to freely accesses for various healthy, social, or …

Identification of influential factors and improvement of hotel online user-generated scores: a prescriptive analytics approach

F Rezaei, I Raeesi Vanani, A Jafari… - Journal of Quality …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The information obtained from customers' feedback can help hotel managers improve their
provided services in a targeted manner according to customers' expectations. Besides, other …

The effect of visual and acoustic factors on the sound preference for waterscapes in urban public spaces

X Yang, J Kang - Applied Acoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
Waterscape has been found to have a positive impact on preference in public space. This
study evaluated three fountains in Harbin, China, to explore whether their dynamic visual …

Sound masking by a low-pitch speech-shaped noise improves a social robot's talk in noisy environments

H Pourfannan, H Mahzoon, Y Yoshikawa… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: There has been a surge in the use of social robots for providing information,
persuasion, and entertainment in noisy public spaces in recent years. Considering the well …

[HTML][HTML] Improving informational-attentional masking of water sound on traffic noise by spatial variation settings: An in situ study with brain activity measurements

J Li, M Masullo, L Maffei, A Pascale, C Chau, M Lin - Applied Acoustics, 2024 - Elsevier
According with soundscape strategies to improve the perception of the sound environment,
laboratory studies have proven that introducing water sounds into urban spaces can be both …

Effects of Acoustic Environment Types on Stress Relief in Urban Parks

J Zhang, H Yan, D Wang - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Urban public space environments are critical to the health of residents. In previous studies
on urban park environments and health, landscape environment questionnaires have been …

Assessment of Audio-Visual Environmental Stimuli. Complementarity of Comfort and Discomfort Scales

J Felcyn, A Preis, M Praszkowski… - Archives of Acoustics, 2021 - yadda.icm.edu.pl
The results show that there are no statistically significant differences between the
assessment of comfort and discomfort associated with visual samples. Actually, the comfort …

TrogloDYKE's Delight: A Deep Listening of Pauline Olivero's Troglodyte's Delight

C Robertson - 2024 - scholars.wlu.ca
Pauline Oliveros, renowned lesbian composer, left a legacy of experimental music and
groundbreaking ideas about music and sound, both as maker and listener. She is best …

A influência de um corpo d'água na percepção sonora dos usuários em ambiente urbano

ME Fernandes, É Masiero - ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE …, 2023 - eventos.antac.org.br
A poluição sonora tem sido apontada como um dos principais problemas ambientais
atualmente no mundo, responsável por diversas doenças. Os estudos acerca do controle de …

Redesigning the Vakil Bazaar in Shiraz Using Sound as the Main Driving Element of the Desire to be in Space

M Moghadam, K Momeni - Journal of Vibration and Sound, 2024 - jvs.isav.ir
Bazaars are among the few historical buildings that still continue to operate. The Bazaar in a
city has been important not only from economic aspects but also from cultural and social …